That Television/Matthew Sweet guitarist Richard Lloyd knew Jimi Hendrix when he was a kid (through a mutual friend), and that Hendrix actually decked him one night!

From an interview that I had w/ Mr. Lloyd back in 1993:


Good stuff. Great memories.

todd, this is a great post and all but if you're going to beat radcliffe in the first round we gotta get some food posts going. my money's on you babe. you can DO it.

Hey, no tag-teaming.

Did you know ----> Marc Bolan's first band (even before John's Children) was called Suzie and the Hula Hoops, and "Suzie" went on to footnote fame as being the headline act during the Beatles' first tour of England?

I was just thinking about this interview last night and thought I'd share. It's not a contest. Other "Did you know...?"s: Toni Basil (of "Mickey" fame) was in the early-70's Jack Nicholson film Five Easy Pieces, playing one of the hitchikers that Jack eats with in the famous "...between your knees" diner scene. In the film Home Alone, in the scene where Maculay Culkin almost gets hit by a car, that car was driven by my dad. He wanted to lean out the window and yell "Get outta the way!!!" But they wouldn't let him, because then they'd have to pay him actor's scale for a speaking part.

Wow, your dad could have done the world a great service that day, if only he hadn't swerved.

Back in 1996 during one of my long spells of being an unemployed bum I was put on a work placement in a recording studio along with an other guy. The other guy was Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian. Both being 'shy' or possibly just 'rude' we never actually spoke to one an other over the course of a year.

I went on to be a massively influencial Obnerite holding sway over an entire generation of hipsters. He became a minor indie songwriter of limited appeal.

Sometimes when I'm walking in the West End we see each other and exhange funny looks.